Space Beyond: A Cosmic Wonder
I know what you’re probably thinking. Another space documentary? If you’re common in Astron Analytics, you know that a lot of my articles have mainly been based on space. For sakes, the common theme of the website is space! In this 10 chapter documentary, I will be fully open to questions and will also be expressing my opinions on space. This will be our journey on answering the many questions in the field of space. First arriving at arguably the most asked question, “Is there any other life other than Earth?”
A graphic on what type of life lives where on Earth.
Well my friend when searching for other intelligent life besides humans, we first look on Earth. Earth holds an uncanny number of creatures, each with their own unique features. We see these creatures range from microscopic organisms to gigantic whales. With so much diversity on Earth, it’s hard to think there isn’t another intelligent life, So where are they? Well, there wasn’t much explaining to do, if there was another intelligent species on Earth it would be likely that we would’ve found them already, if not, then they would’ve found us. So we took to the skies, literally. Starting in the early 1900s, astronomers turned their eyes to the night skies in hopes of spotting something they believed would give them a clue of what might be out there. And it didn’t take long.
Astron could not find an image of Polargeist and Phobetora, so to compensate, we found an image comparing the average exoplanet to Neptune. And just for detail, we compared Earth to Neptune!
In 1990, with the help of the brand new Hubble Telescope, 2 exoplanets (Polargeist and Phobetora) were discovered orbiting a pulsar. This discovery is important because it not only confirmed that exoplanets actually existed outside of the solar system, but also opened up a huge gateway, ultimately creating the biggest search for intelligent life prior to this discovery.
However, the goal to find some sort of life, besides the trillions on Earth, began to die down. The entire search was like a candle, slowly burning itself out. So instead of using the majority of its days to find life, Hubble began photographing beautiful stars and galaxies. Of course, it would still operate for such an occasion if it did find a clue, but after all, Hubble wasn’t built to find life only. The Hubble Telescope was mainly built to locate far away galaxies and to observe nearby stars. So that’s what Hubble did for the next 30 years, taking beautiful pictures such as the now famous celestial figures: Pillars of Creation, Helix Nebula, Cat’s Eye Nebula, and Andromeda.
It’s pictures like these that form what I like to call, the Cosmic Wonders. They are both beautiful and mysterious. But we don’t know enough about them to say anything or claim anything about it, but they are too beautiful to not notice and to not study. Leaving us questions without answers and a trail with no end.
Document: Space Beyond
